LIGHT PLANE WORLD
Frank Beagle with his Easy Riser after flying 250 miles to Oshkosh in 1982.
EAA's Hall of
Fame Ceremonies…
And Ultralight & Light-Sport Aircraft Council notes
BY DAN GRUNLOH
THE EAA HALL OF FAME ceremony and dinner held each
November at the EAA AirVenture Museum is a terrific event
if you want fine food, excellent appetizers, two kinds of
wine on each table, and the company of some of the most
accomplished people in the world of sport aviation.
A social hour before the dinner provides the opportunity to meet EAA leaders and Hall of Fame inductees chosen for their contributions to the world of ultralights and
homebuilts and aerobatic, vintage, and warbird aircraft. All
the various boards, councils, and affiliates are in Oshkosh
for annual meetings that week. As a result, there is a lot
of aviation talk at that dinner in that building filled with
historic airplanes. Two names on the 2013 list are familiar
to ultralight enthusiasts. Phil Lockwood was chosen for the
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Homebuilders Hall of Fame by the Homebuilt Aircraft
Council, and Frank Beagle was the inductee to the Ultralight Hall of Fame. Read the personal history of the
2013 EAA Hall of Fame inductees.
The EAA Ultralight & Light-Sport Aircraft Council is a group of volunteers who meet and advise EAA
staff on matters of interest about ultralights and
light planes. Read about the members here. We have
monthly telephone conferences and meet each year
for two full days at EAA Headquarters. The members
take their responsibility seriously because it's a terrific opportunity to communicate directly with the
top EAA leadership. The Council also supervises the
selection process for the Ultralight Hall of Fame. A
Photography by Dan Grunloh